Abstract

This contribution deals with the interaction of previously presented approaches towards situation specific process planning and integrates these approaches into one general framework. The relevant aspects are the development process model, the definitions of roles and levels of process planning, the design situation, the procedural model for process planning as well as the general framework and its implementation. It is discussed how the single aspects of the framework work together. The evaluation of the framework, its results and future work to improve the approach are shown and discussed.

Creative thinking, computational synthesis, environmental concerns, structural complexity, mechatronics, modelling of engineering processes, decision making, research quality, product development, embodiment, ... Each of these terms covers a range of activities, practical efforts and research streams. Excerpted from the DESIGN 2010 topic and workshop titles these terms epitomise the multi-dimensional nature of design that gathers all of the authors and participants to the DESIGN conference events. Our...